Death roll recovery

I always thought the bearing away thing is for when you are sailing by the lee, as effectively the sail is reversed. When on a run but not by the lee, luffing up will be the way to save yourself. I think I'd like some warmer water to fall into than we currently have to figure out which one works better when!

you are correct GarethT, it is all to do with the lift of the rudder rather than anything to do with the sails or your angle to the wind.

to test this without gettig wet, just find a boat with a cradle trolley, like an RS4/200, put it on the trolley as if its heeled, put the rudder on and then grab hold of the rudder blade and physically pull towards whatever gunwhale is higher, you will see the boat tries to heel even more.  this demonstrates pushing the tiller away when the boat is heeled to windward, or pulling the tiller towards you when heeled to leeward.

http://www.roostersailing.com/merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen= hints&Store_Code=1 then click on the 4th dimension link.  this explains the theory quite well with some videos

Im so gald I was right to question the Byte class video guite

 

I did think that heading up would make the death part come faster.
Hoever today I did try simply pumping the sail and to be fair it did stop the roll.
I did induce the roll by letting out too much sheet but one tug did bring it upright.

The "rooster roll" by pushing down on the opposite gunnel did seem to add speed so a good tug on the sheet seems to fix it if im in a tight area surouned boy boats but the bear away which was my initial instinct does seem to beat the CII class video's

Originally posted by zzzz When you are in a death roll situation, as in: if you do nothing you are going swim, the boat is already coming on top of you, kind of situation (hence the name DEATH ROLL, traditionally this is accompanyed by panic, a brown wetsuit and.....

Now now you naughty boys and girls you are not allowed to call it a death roll, it scares beginners. Sailing schools call it a SPEED WOBBLE. After hearing this from an instructor sailing in the FD fleet we decided to call it a PINK FLUFFY KITTEN. You could never get scared of that could you! Ha!

Edited by Strangler

It's called "Death Roll" because the outcome is inevitable like death, not because it will cause death. No problem for the "undead" then, (GRF) ?